Perhaps extreme flammable and highly toxic cars need to be placed at the end of the train?
Railroads need more safety training and inforced. It could also be laziness. Have to protect the public also.
Lawsuits are not cheap.
Charles

I'm not a Frisco fan but I am trying to have an answer to a picture in my possession that appears to show a significant event in the Frisco history. It appears to me that you are very knowledgeable in the Frisco so please refer to my post under historical / passenger cars / Photo 1913 and hopefully you might have an answer.

Cody,
Wake up.
We need to here your results of about what was in the swimming hole;
the location of the train wreck, and were else are you exploring the Salem Branch,
the Sligo Furnace Company and their Sligo's S&E-RR.

from East Prong Crooked Creek, just over the watershed divide,
there use to be a wood trestle (or filled in & over) in to back west end of Chandler Hollow.